go without

present singular third person goes without · participle present going without · past went without · participle past gone without

1. ambitransitiveidiomaticTo forgo (something).

   Sometimes Tyson went whole months without practicing.

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   If you forgot to bring your toothpaste, you'll have to go without.

   For days he will go without shaving, for months he lets his toenails grow; […]

   1949, Cecil Beaton, “[Home and Abroad, 1948–51] Tangier”, in Richard Buckle, editor, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, published 1979, →ISBN, page 223

2. ambitransitiveidiomaticTo lack or be deprived of (something).

   The poor man's children went without supper.

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   Jamie would get upset growing up over all the times she, or we, went without, but, looking back, we can see that that was what made us tough.

   2016, K.A. Morini, Amanda Beth Randall, “Little House on the Pond”, in The Book: The Story of Red Tail Hawk: One Family’s Journey Through Addiction, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 54